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Historical Persistence : Examining the Effects of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic on COVID-19 Vaccination Patterns
(Tilburg University, 2024) Ramírez Cruz, Juan José; Giraldo Osorio, Marcela; Laplana, Antonio
Historical persistence is an important factor to understand how our institutions, former policies, and historical events shaped our societal constrains nowadays; our present-day attitudes; and how our economic interactions will be shaped in the long run. The identification of persistence in interdisciplinary sectors can have important implications for policy-making in future strategies, making these decisions more effective and targeted at our objectives by researching how former approaches shaped contemporary responses. This article studies the impact of former historical events and policies such as the 1918 Great Influenza, and the interventions to mitigate it, on present-day decisions concerning public health issues, specifically COVID-19 vaccination rates. By interpreting how these historical events shaped current behaviours and institutional frameworks, it enhances the opportunity to design efficient crisis mitigation plans which can address disparities across demographics and geography, and it is an alternative point of view for policy-makers and researchers to understand inherited human behaviour and societal resilience for future research and more accurate governmental interventions.